Bridge

Jinx wasn't the sentimental type. In the time you'd been working with you, you had never seen her take even a second to smell the flowers along the way, she seemed to simply bounce from place to place, like a pinball.

So you let the silence take over. She had taken you to a tall building, looking at the bridge which spanned over a long dark river. It always seemed like the last obstacle a bottom sider had to climb before they could reach top side. You remembered passing over it with your sister, having your paperwork scanned for errors and passing through... It was harder to remember walking back alone but she would be happier there.

Jinx gazed at the bridge and you decided to ask her why she had brought you here.

"Does this place mean something to you."

"No... I just thought, you'd like the view, see." You looked at the bridge and as interesting as the architecture was, you doubted that was it was the only reason she had brought you here.

"Is that all?"

"Does it mean something to you?" She asked with a raised eyebrow and genuine interest.

"I think that, that bridge, it means something to every bottom sider."

Jinx chewed her lip and gazed towards you, she was not focused on a blemish on the wall beside you.

"Yeah... I guess you can say that, what happened to you on the bridge, were your family brutally killed by enforcers or what?"

"No, that would have been... I don't know if I could have gotten this far if that had happened to me. My parents weren't around to long. My dad died working in a fishery, some kind of accident. My mom... my mom couldn't really handle that. So it was just me and my sister."

"You have a sister, younger or older?"

"Younger and an older brother, but I don't know what happened to him."

"Where's your sister?"

You sat down next to Jinx and she leaned closer, you carefully lifted your arm to put it around her shoulder, she leaned into you more.

"This is actually nice but where is your sister, you didn't answer?"

"I sent her to a boarding school on topside it nearly cost me a liver but-"

"You left her!?"

"Wh- Jinx!"

She jumped away from you and pulled a gun, she aimed it between your eyes.

"You just left her alone! You left her behind, how could anyone do that. No shut up, she's not like her, but she is. Your just like her."

"Like who and I did not leave my sister behind. I would do anything for her and I see her, whenever I can. Its not my fault that I have to do the work and pay the bills, and I would give anything to have her with me right now, anything. But I cannot decide her life for her and I won't. Jinx, you have to understand."

"Understand what, you don't seem to understand that your already making all the choices here. Did you actually ask her what she wanted or did you tell her 'you have to do this Jinx' 'this is how you'll stay safe Jinx."

"What- your right I made that choice for her but Jinx." You put your hand on her shoulder and looked into her blue eyes. "I love my sister."

She lowered the gun, you both looked into each others eye. She didn't move away from your hand and you didn't try to move it. She leaned closer towards you and you leaned in more. She kissed you first, her lips reaching yours. They were warm and soft and within seconds you kissed back. Moving your hand from her shoulder to her back, stroking one of her braids.

But then she pushed you away. She crossed her arms and looked towards the bridge.

"I'm sorry your nice but... I just don't know, I feel safe with you but maybe that's just because you remind me of her."

"Well lets get to know each other, I want to know who you really are, Jinx."

"Then lets start off as friends... okay?" She leaned over the edge of the building, as if she could fall in a heart beat.

But you grabbed her back pulling her away from the edge.

"Then we're friends."